MATED TO THE BEAST ALPHA BROTHERS
Chapter 58: clash of powers

Chapter 58: clash of powers

"I’ve been waiting for you."

The voice cut through the thick mountain air, low and menacing, like a whisper of death.

Haelyn turned sharply, her golden eyes locking onto the figure standing atop the jagged rocks.

A woman...tall, wrapped in shadows, her dark skin gleaming under the moonlight. Her presence alone made the air feel heavier, suffocating. Behind her, an army of rogue wolves, their eyes glowing like embers in the darkness, awaited her command.

Nemesis.

The name alone sent a chill through Haelyn’s bones.

But she refused to let it show.

Haelyn straightened, meeting Nemesis’s gaze head-on. "Who are you?"

Nemesis smirked, her lips curving in amusement. "You carry her power, yet you don’t even know me?" She descended from the rocks, her movements slow, deliberate. "How disappointing."

Archer stepped forward instinctively, his body tense. "Stay back, Haelyn."

Haelyn didn’t move. "You came all this way just to talk? Or are you here to die?"

A sharp laugh burst from Nemesis. "Bold. I like that. But no, little Luna... I came to take what is mine."

She snapped her fingers.

A deafening growl erupted from behind her as her rogue wolves lunged forward.

Artemis and Xander were the first to react, shifting mid-air as they collided with the enemy.

Rowena’s daggers flashed under the moonlight as she took down two rogues in a single strike.

Ravi summoned fire from the earth, engulfing the charging wolves in flames.

But Haelyn...Haelyn stayed still.

Nemesis watched her with a tilted head. "Not going to fight?"

Haelyn flexed her fingers. The air around her hummed with energy.

"I don’t need to fight," she said. "I just need to end you."

Lightning crackled around her hands as she raised them.

But Nemesis moved faster.

With a flick of her wrist, dark tendrils shot from her fingers, snaking toward Haelyn like living shadows.

Haelyn dodged, barely. The ground where she’d stood cracked and blackened.

"Impressive," Nemesis mused. "But let’s see how long you last."

She vanished...then reappeared behind Haelyn in a blink.

"Too slow."

Her hand wrapped around Haelyn’s throat, lifting her off the ground.

Archer roared in rage, lunging forward, but Nemesis flicked her wrist, sending him flying backward.

Haelyn gasped, struggling against the inhuman grip. "You... won’t... win."

Nemesis leaned in, her voice a whisper against Haelyn’s ear.

"I already have."

Darkness exploded from Nemesis’s body, engulfing them both.

The last thing Haelyn saw was Archer screaming her name...before everything turned black.

"Struggle all you want, little Luna. You are already mine."

Nemesis’s voice echoed in the abyss as Haelyn gasped for breath.

Darkness wrapped around her like a vice, pulling her into an unknown void. She could feel the weight of it, suffocating, pressing against her ribs, threatening to crush her very existence.

Nemesis stood over her, a twisted smile on her lips. "You should have never been born. You were never meant to hold such power."

Haelyn clenched her fists, her vision swimming. Archer’s voice was a distant echo now. She couldn’t see him, couldn’t feel anything but the cold grip of shadows around her.

Her body was failing.

Her strength was fading.

No.

A voice...low, ancient, dangerous...whispered through her mind.

You are not weak. You are not prey. You are death itself.

Haelyn’s body jerked. Her golden eyes flickered...then burned white.

Something else had awakened.

Nemesis barely had time to react before Haelyn’s entire body exploded with power.

A shockwave sent Nemesis hurtling backward, her feet skidding across the unseen ground. She braced herself, eyes narrowing. "What the..."

Haelyn...no, Keres...lifted her head.

Her golden hair whipped wildly as raw energy coiled around her form like a living entity. Her face was the same, but her aura was entirely different...something darker, something unrelenting.

"You talk too much."

Keres’s voice was Haelyn’s, yet it wasn’t. It was deeper, colder.

Nemesis gritted her teeth. "You think some borrowed strength can stop me?"

She lunged.

Keres didn’t move.

Nemesis’s claws slashed through the air...only to be caught mid-swing.

Keres held her wrist effortlessly, fingers like iron around her bones.

Nemesis’s eyes widened.

Impossible.

Before she could react, Keres twisted...SNAP.

Nemesis howled as her wrist broke like brittle glass.

"You’re nothing," Keres sneered. "Just another fool who thought she could play god."

Nemesis screamed in rage, her free hand summoning tendrils of darkness, striking Keres in the chest...but they dissolved on impact.

Keres didn’t even flinch.

She tilted her head, amused. "Pathetic."

Then she moved...faster than light, faster than thought.

One moment she stood still. The next, she was behind Nemesis, gripping her by the throat and slamming her into the ground with such force the very air cracked.

Nemesis choked, struggling against the crushing grip.

"You were saying?" Keres taunted, her eyes glowing like two burning stars.

Nemesis’s power surged...she tried to claw at Keres, tried to break free, but nothing worked. It was like trying to fight a nightmare, something far beyond mortal understanding.

She wasn’t winning anymore.

She was losing.

For the first time in centuries, Nemesis felt fear.

Nemesis’s army...watching from a distance...began to falter. Their queen was being destroyed.

"No," Nemesis snarled, forcing herself to move despite the pain wracking her body. "I am not done!"

Keres only smirked. "You already are."

Her grip tightened...Nemesis’s body convulsed.

It was over.

Until....

A shadow tore through the void, wrapping around Nemesis and yanking her away in an instant.

Keres’s fingers closed around empty air.

Her white-hot gaze flickered up, watching as the remnants of Nemesis’s power disappeared into the darkness.

She had escaped.

For now.

Keres exhaled sharply, and for the first time, Haelyn felt her mind push back.

"Enough," she gasped. "Let me... let me take back control."

For a moment, there was silence.

Then, the power surrounding her receded.

Keres was gone.

And Haelyn...breathing heavily, trembling...stood alone in the vast emptiness.

But something had changed.

She could feel it.

It was like she could now control multiple powers,take on multiple souls in one body and she was conscious of it.